subject: Making Warcraft Gold – Simple Tips and Secrets [print this page] Author: Paul Rone-Clarke Author: Paul Rone-Clarke
I started like most people. Levelling up, killing mobs, and letting out a big "Yipee" if a decent "green" item dropped. Now and then when I managed to get a "Blue" It felt like my birthday and Christams rolled into one. BUt every time I levelled up, I would go to the auction house. Soon I had next to no gold again. Why was this? Does this sound familiar? In the first of a quick series of articles I'm going to float some pretty obvious, but rarely used ideas to you and see if you can't improve your gold productivity with little or no effort at all. My first "revelation" is. wait for it.."Sorting". It's as simple as that. Items come in many different categories, and over time you will get to instinctively sort in your head. My idea is to follow through on this, to really sort the items, and to treat them differently dependent on the category they fit in. Here are the categories I use, you may have different ideas. Non Stackable Gray Trash -The worst of the worst. Very low level items. Normal equipment, that does not stack in an inventory slot. Yes the fact that it is a sword or a belt might make you think "I'll keep that" but at low level these items are almost worthless, they certainly won't sell at auction. Ditch these as soon as you can. Although you should never throw anything away (vendors will buy anything that isn't quest related) but if you are stuck in the middle of no-where, no vendor and no post box and better loot to collect, then these should be the first to go. Stackable Gray Trash. A surprisingly large step up from non stackable trash. These grey items - often interestingly named animal parts - beaks, legs, etc. stack, often to 20 per inventory slot. OK one of these from level 15 mobs is only worth 40 copper, but 20 is worth 8 silver. Of course you want to vendor these as soon as possible, but they are certainly worth a lot more bag space than none stackable items. Whites. Leaving the stackable and none stackable distinction behind (I won't repeat the ideas for every item class) Whites can often have value. Some are ingredients and reagents used in crafting. Others are pretty useless. Again it's weapons and armour that, above about level 12, no-one uses. So you need to split whites into two sections. Crafting requirements and vendor trash. Then check the auction house. Some of these whites, even those available before level 20, can be incredibly valuable if sold in bulk. If you take a gathering profession you may find your backpack full of these. Remember it's not just the main harvest item that's worth gold, the other items (stone for miners, scraps for Skinners and all sorts of stuff for herbalists) Market these, and anything that looks of value, at the auction house. At low level these good whites will make you more gold than any amount of low level greens. The final category I use when levelling is BoE Greens and Blues. Do you remember the first time you looted a Blue? Chances are that if it was a couple of years back ,then it had some decent value at the auction house. These days low level (below 40) blues are rarely worth much. Of course there are exceptions, and this is where you need to be most careful. Some can still be fabulously valuable, others not worth the dust they disenchant into. A few tips. If the level requirement end in a "9" (i.e. 19, 29, 39) then this might be a twinking item for PvP players. If it has the prefix "Champions" then it may well be more valuable. Finally you need some experience here. Projectile Blues (guns and bows) tend to have value, but there are many other items that could also be worthy. Unless you run Auctioneer or similarly regularly, you may not have a record of the exact item you are thinking of selling on record so look at the stats. Good focussed stats that would make the item valuable for a player of a particular class might point to a valuable item. Sort these low level BoE greens and blues as Auction or Disenchant. If you can't disenchant yourself see if a guild member will do it for you. Check the value of the essences/dusts ect. that may result from disenchanting and see which offers the best value - the finished item, or the results of the disenchant One set of items you can't auctionl are the BoP Greens and Blues. Do you need them? They are probably quest rewards, and therefore you have the simple choice to either use them, or vendor them. There is no other choice. Having a lovely blue robe in your backpack for weeks"because it's a blue and has a really pretty icon" is a waste of time and space, Use it or ditch it. Again if you are an enchanter consider the value and probabilities of disenchanting. At the end of the day there can be many more categories, but with these simple rules you can keep your backpacks and bank vaults clear, and make the most gold from what you pick up during normal play. Good LuckAbout the Author:
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